In certain situations, I need to connect to a remote network via a bastion host but only have SSH available to me. To get around installing some kind of VPN gateway, the easiest thing to do is to create an SSH tunnel.

For those of us that often have to use console servers to connect over IP to serial ports of devices, the removal of telnet from High Sierra is a bit of a pain in the bum. Here are two things you can do:

Just spent a half hour sorting out some irritating search toolbar and browser hijack that my mum’s Mac seemed to have got from somewhere. Most of what I read on the internet seemed to be out of date or inaccurate maybe, so I’m posting my steps to getting rid of this here in case it is of use.